Samson Ojo
11 February 2008
Lagos — Former Governor of Lagos State Senator Bola Tinubu has described the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration as the most corrupt, saying that labelling past governors by him (Obasanjo) as the most corrupt politicians was hypocriticy of the highest order.
Speaking yesterday in Lagos at the 2nd Beko Ransome Kuti Memorial Anniversary Solidarity Day symposium with the theme: Beko-2 years after: The challenges ahead, held at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) headquarters, Tinubu lamented that the general public has been made to believe that past state governors were the major problem of the country who looted the public treasury.He insited the opposite was the case.
According to him former President Obasanjo's government could be described as a fat cat with its children chasing the roddents.
He asked rhetorically "can the 36 states governors who are taking the least of federal allocation be responsible for the woes on Benin-Ore road, failure to revive railway system,the selling of Nitel,,the launching of Presidential library while still a sitting president and coercing state governors, oil companies executives and others to donate etc.
This is nothing but transparent corruption ,who are we kidding?"
On the Beko memorial anniversary, he expressed the desire of having the symposium organised in a more elaborate wayswhere speakers across the nation will be invited to speak on various topics.
He stated that he would have loved a kind of symposium where there will be papers on what the late Dr Beko would have said about corruption, moral fraud, ineptitude in government, the rape of the constitution and the rape of true federalism. He charge the Beko 2nd memorial anniversary committee to commission a book titled, "Beko Ransome Kuti and His Struggle" as a way of documenting his great works.
Also speaking at the occasion the former NLC President, Adams Oshiomhole, contributing on the lessons from the life of the late Beko, said that the problems in the society can only be solved when men begin to confront them and not by merely lamenting over them. He described Dr Beko as a great organiser and a team player.
Other speakers at the event were the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr. Fredrick Faseheun, who declared that he would never forgive former President Obasanjo for denying him the opportunity to be at the graveside of Dr Beko, saying while he was in prison, he did plead with the former president to allow him to witness the accasion even in handcuffs but his request was not granted.
Others were the President, Civil Rights Congress, Shehu Sanni, Femi Falana ,President, West African Bar Association (WABA), Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President Campaign for Democracy, Dr Dipo Fashina, former ASSU President among others.
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